Giving how easy is to get your article published, I bet you could probably find an article that uses Wikipedia as a reference, thus completing the circle.
I hope the plans to add a Bluetooth receiver are already on the way. An implantable Codec style earphone is much more welcome than those goofy Bluetooth headsets used nowadays.
Don't worry as real "indie" games aren't going away. The only thing dying is the original meaning of the world "indie", something that is unavoidable in the human society. But I do thing stupid using the same terminology to refer to companies/studios that self publish and people who just develop/publish games as a hobby.
While I agree with you that a Jellyfish robot by itself doesn't seem all that useful, it's important to notice we're talking about an academic project. The system composing technologies, like developed actuators, control algorithms, communication systems, materials, waterproofing, underwater sensors, etc, are what really matters. The Jellyfish robot that is making the news is nothing but an academic testing and benchmark platform for all these "real", useful technologies.
It's the same sentiment about everything that is illegal(except child porn which is just evil by default). Some ignorant people using and abusing stuff incorrectly and ruining the fun for everybody else.
Unfortunately sending this guy to prison for 30 months or 30 years won't solve anything. People that point lasers are aircraft most likely don't even read the news(let alone/.). Soon there will be another idiot repeating the same mistakes. And most times not because he is a terrorist trying to taking down a plane, but because he just don't know the risks of such action. Education and technology related manners is what we need.
RPi in particular has two main uses: learn computers and learn electronics. For learning computers you just need the CPU/GPU/memory in a nice, preferably open, package. Given that the RPi is relatively weak compared to several consumer ARM devices(smartphones/tablets/game consoles/media centers/etc), using them for learning programing/hacking is a reasonable option.
An advantage the RPi(and the several other "better", but more expensive and less popular board ARM computers) has over consumer ARM device are the GPIOs. Sure you can add a secondary controller that communicates with the RPi through some USB/BT or if you're lucky some loose UART/SPI bus. But in the end you will also add complexity and cost to the device. Just think about it: the RPi is one small board with an ARM7(i think) chip and built in GPIO connector. Drivers are already available for the official linux distro. It cost $35. If you use a consumer ARM device you going to have to open it up, then install a custom board with GPIOs like PWM, ADC, DAC, CAN, SPI, UART, etc(Arduino, Mbed or something you designed by yourself), you going have to write TWO pieces of software(smartphone and custom board firmware) and its probably going to cost just as much as a RPi(if not more)
Finally the biggest advantage the RPi has over other ARM devices is the community. I personally use some ODROID exynos boards at work, hardware is miles ahead but the support/knowhow from the community pales in comparison to the RPi's. At least I'm an engineer and I've done some tinkering myself so I can withstand some frustration. But for the beginner who needs all the help he can get or the individual who doesn't require to top line hardware and just want's to get the job done, the RPi is the superior choice.
But in the end it's really up to what you need to do. Depending on your project you might need both a smartphone and a RPi. There is no ultimate choice.
Mistakes, bugs or rodent problems are understandable. But c'mon, we're talking about nuclear power here. I expect at least some redundancy and fail-safety. Unless we're talking about some soviet era facility, I guarantee you that you'll never hear about such a problem on any other nuclear power plant in the world. It's like they didn't learn anything from two years ago. And Tepco is one of the most well-funded companies in Japan. Lack of money and staff shouldn't be a problem. As a guy who lives in Japan I hate Tepco. Thanks to them my power bill is freaking expensive and yet they can't even do a decent job. What a disgrace to Japan.
Noise may be a problem, but I think the propeller wind is probably a even bigger issue. I own an AR drone and it's 4 relatively propellers are already enough to blow all the dead leafs away from my garden. I wouldn't be surprised if this drone actually moved the ball or, at least, blows away someones hat. BTW, golf is one of the last sports that need a camera flying over the players. I know there is a risk of breaking the drone during the game, but I think soccer, football, baseball, rugby and all team sports where having a cameraman in the middle of the field is impractical could make a much better use of this technology.
Sorry for hijacking your comment, but since we are on the open-source topic, is the Oculus API/SDK open?
I don't mean open-source(although that is a plus). I'm sure anyone can use it and but can anyone make a compatible API that is compatible with code originally designed for the Rift?
If the Rift is actually successful, it's a given that other companies will make similar products(Plus while the Rift is interesting, I want some competition, as it's far from my ideal). It'll be really sad if devs have to write code for each device on the market. Ideally, with the success of the Rift, there will be a initiative for a standard.
If the Chinese government directly or indirectly intervenes with Apple production lines in China, sure they can damage Apple. But that would also scare the crap out of pretty much every other foreign company which will probably resulting in them moving away from China. Without foreign business, China economy crumble. Such a move will be suicide for China. If the Chinese want to disrupt Apple(or any other major company) business, they must be as subtle as possible.
I think that is a delicate issue. IMHO, the very first question to ask would be : Are you using that domain? If the answer is yes, then you deserve that domain. If the answer is no then you should let someone who is going to use that domain have it.
But then there is a problem: Define "using". Is having a server displaying a single page with ads or some simple massage/whatever be considered using it?
Needless to say there are other problems: is the name related to the purpose of your webservice? is it infringing other people privacy/trademark/copyright? Those are just a few examples.
I not a network engineer or computer scientist, and I have no idea how DNS should be handled but personally even I find the current domain name system oversimplified and insufficient. A system that provides an incomplete solution to a very large and complex problem. ICANN was created in 1998, based on a system established by the US gov. much earlier. The internet back then was a smaller than the internal network of a large modern company nowadays. It was sufficient for the that time, but not anymore.
If you want to take a refreshing big dump you NEED fast internet. Or are you implying you don't use your smartphone to browse facebook while in the pooper?
+1 if I had mod points. That was exactly my suspicion when I saw this news at other tech blogs. Reading the article a couple of days ago when I heard the news on Engadget, I was incredibly disappointed. The word "regeneration" is being completely misused here, unless that is it's meaning in Electronics(Just like "Teleportation" through quantum entanglement is quite different from Teleportation as we usually imagine). However as a System/Medical engineer that deals a lot of electronics I've never heard of such terminology. That is just a IC with some redundant reprogrammable capabilities that reprograms itself based on the input from the damage sensors it has built in itself. Nothing really goes back to the previous undamaged state. And after a number trials it will die for good. Useful tech, but misleading title.
Also horrible abstract. Just specs and numbers, exactly the opposite we expect from an abstract.
and white sneakers?
But on a serious note, I'm really curious about the output for people with similar clothes. Specially if you work in Japan, with all these salaryman in black suits or in any hospital with all doctors and nurses using nearly the same outfit(or any workplace that requires an uniform). Artists and celebrities may do their best to use different outfits in front of the cameras, but in the real world there is quite a significant overlap of clothing even between different people.
I totally agree with what you said: most people, including me and probably you, are not OS and framework developers, and for those people computers are tools to get the job done. And even as a linux fan myself, just like any tools, it's idiotic to believe that linux can do everything. But it's ALSO idiotic to think that about any other OS/platform. In the end it's really up to what you do. As a guy who uses all the OSes: games, office and CAD->windows; coding(embedded and desktop) and graphics(I can get my hobbyst stuff done on blender/gimp/inkscape); internet browsing and presentations->mac. Needless to say those are MY needs, which brings me to my next point.
The problem with this article is that the guy doesn't even say what he does/wants to do with his computer and just complains about fragmentation and incompatibilities as an end user and that is it. You can experience these problems, but only if you install linux on unsupported hardware. If I install MAC OS X on my retired 7 year old Vaio laptop(use a MBP retina for laptop, at least for now), I'd consider myself lucky if I even get to display the apple logo when booting. But regardless what is his opinion, without know how he wants to use his computer, there is no way to even agree or disagree with his shallow whining.
By the way, the article about windows losing to mac, that "inspired" him to write the topic article, is even worse. When it comes to Windows, "viruses" are the least of my problems nowadays. I'm actually surprised that a key person in the Linux history, that supposedly has a knowledge on computers and OSes that is above 99% of other computer users, gets inspired by an crappy ass article that looks like it was written by my grandma when she's pissed off at her laptop.
"Computers long ago reached the point where they were fast enough..."
For you, maybe - but not for everyone.
What you said is correct, but it's important to notice that a large chunk of the computer the computer market is target at the average joe, which uses their computers only for facebook, youtube, mail and some office, in which case a modern ARM system is more than enough. There are also those people trying to use ARM chips on servers for energy efficiency, but AFAIK, that is still a niche applications. Intel and x86 won't be going anywhere in the professional environment(ignoring the threat from openCL/CUDA as well as the possibility of a desktop class ARM), but I wouldn't be surprised if in the next years they lose significant presence in the consumer market. The fact that tablets and smartphones have been substituting desktop/laptop computers for lots of people, and the sales for classical computer devices have been going down is the proof that x86 is losing ground in daily life.
This. I see people all over the internet waiting for the $100 3d printer. Don't worry, we'll get them. But be prepared to pay with your body for the model and support materials.
Useful? What an understatement. This feature is could potentially being a life saver for the porn addicts browsing websites that open multiple tabs with video/chat feeds in the background.
Actually that is exactly what I did. My biggest issue so far with MBP however is that I can't get some hardware to work optimally(Nvidia Optimus being the prime example). The initial set up was also a huge mess. Sure I could just use a VM, and for most work that is what I do, but for graphics nothing is better than native performance. It would be really nice if Apple released bootcamp for linux.
too bad Chrome OS is just too gimped. Such a wasted opportunity. While the insides are not stellar the screen looks great. I'd gladly pay that price if it had a real linux distro with manufacturer support. That kind of screen is for professionals graphical and coding apps, not facebook, twitter and youtube.
My wish as well. Too bad sony is not that insightful. I have a playstation certified Xperia phone, pretty good phone: up to date, nice internals, very good looking, excellent 340ppi screen, but the playstation part sucks. Only playstation mobile games and the free Music Unlimited service if you're a PSN+ member are available. No remote play, no videos, no cloud services, no PSN, no PS1 and PSP games, virtually nothing.
Another thing that worries me about a PS certified PC is that, while the Vaio line is aesthetically attractive and contains some innovations such as external GPUs, payment through NFC since 2006, ultrabooks and netbooks way before these words were even coined(although extremely expensive), for gaming the Vaio line is and has always been awful. Also Linux support is not very good either(at least based on my experience with a Vaio laptop from 2006), which is ironical since sony is the only game console maker that bothered making linux, at least temporary, available for their consoles.
Back in the late 19th/early 20th century patents still made some sense as most devices were pretty much single purpose. But nowadays, when the trend is to make everything do everything and there is this fusion of all types of technologies going on, this classical patent system is completely inappropriate. Depending on the field you're working, it's an inhuman task to even keep track of all patents you're infringing.
The physical/chemical 3D print methods mentioned in the article are just the tip of the iceberg. If you start nitpicking, I wouldn't be surprised by the potential huge number of both software/firmware and electromechanical/mechatronics/robotics hardware patents they break.
The worst thing is that 3d printers are just highly specialized robots. Imagine in a few years when semi-general purpose robots start becoming common appliances, as healthcare, entertainment, maintenance or security tools. Robotics is known as the field of engineering that joins all other fields and because of that, even a basic cleaning robot will infringe pretty much every type of patent in the world. I think like the moment robot companies like iRobot or Cyberdyne release a killer consumer product they will pretty much be sued in oblivion by all other companies.
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Giving how easy is to get your article published, I bet you could probably find an article that uses Wikipedia as a reference, thus completing the circle.
I hope the plans to add a Bluetooth receiver are already on the way. An implantable Codec style earphone is much more welcome than those goofy Bluetooth headsets used nowadays.
Don't worry as real "indie" games aren't going away. The only thing dying is the original meaning of the world "indie", something that is unavoidable in the human society. But I do thing stupid using the same terminology to refer to companies/studios that self publish and people who just develop/publish games as a hobby.
While I agree with you that a Jellyfish robot by itself doesn't seem all that useful, it's important to notice we're talking about an academic project. The system composing technologies, like developed actuators, control algorithms, communication systems, materials, waterproofing, underwater sensors, etc, are what really matters. The Jellyfish robot that is making the news is nothing but an academic testing and benchmark platform for all these "real", useful technologies.
It's the same sentiment about everything that is illegal(except child porn which is just evil by default). Some ignorant people using and abusing stuff incorrectly and ruining the fun for everybody else. /.). Soon there will be another idiot repeating the same mistakes. And most times not because he is a terrorist trying to taking down a plane, but because he just don't know the risks of such action. Education and technology related manners is what we need.
Unfortunately sending this guy to prison for 30 months or 30 years won't solve anything. People that point lasers are aircraft most likely don't even read the news(let alone
RPi in particular has two main uses: learn computers and learn electronics. For learning computers you just need the CPU/GPU/memory in a nice, preferably open, package. Given that the RPi is relatively weak compared to several consumer ARM devices(smartphones/tablets/game consoles/media centers/etc), using them for learning programing/hacking is a reasonable option.
An advantage the RPi(and the several other "better", but more expensive and less popular board ARM computers) has over consumer ARM device are the GPIOs. Sure you can add a secondary controller that communicates with the RPi through some USB/BT or if you're lucky some loose UART/SPI bus. But in the end you will also add complexity and cost to the device. Just think about it: the RPi is one small board with an ARM7(i think) chip and built in GPIO connector. Drivers are already available for the official linux distro. It cost $35. If you use a consumer ARM device you going to have to open it up, then install a custom board with GPIOs like PWM, ADC, DAC, CAN, SPI, UART, etc(Arduino, Mbed or something you designed by yourself), you going have to write TWO pieces of software(smartphone and custom board firmware) and its probably going to cost just as much as a RPi(if not more)
Finally the biggest advantage the RPi has over other ARM devices is the community. I personally use some ODROID exynos boards at work, hardware is miles ahead but the support/knowhow from the community pales in comparison to the RPi's. At least I'm an engineer and I've done some tinkering myself so I can withstand some frustration. But for the beginner who needs all the help he can get or the individual who doesn't require to top line hardware and just want's to get the job done, the RPi is the superior choice.
But in the end it's really up to what you need to do. Depending on your project you might need both a smartphone and a RPi. There is no ultimate choice.
Mistakes, bugs or rodent problems are understandable. But c'mon, we're talking about nuclear power here. I expect at least some redundancy and fail-safety. Unless we're talking about some soviet era facility, I guarantee you that you'll never hear about such a problem on any other nuclear power plant in the world. It's like they didn't learn anything from two years ago. And Tepco is one of the most well-funded companies in Japan. Lack of money and staff shouldn't be a problem. As a guy who lives in Japan I hate Tepco. Thanks to them my power bill is freaking expensive and yet they can't even do a decent job. What a disgrace to Japan.
Noise may be a problem, but I think the propeller wind is probably a even bigger issue. I own an AR drone and it's 4 relatively propellers are already enough to blow all the dead leafs away from my garden. I wouldn't be surprised if this drone actually moved the ball or, at least, blows away someones hat. BTW, golf is one of the last sports that need a camera flying over the players. I know there is a risk of breaking the drone during the game, but I think soccer, football, baseball, rugby and all team sports where having a cameraman in the middle of the field is impractical could make a much better use of this technology.
Sorry for hijacking your comment, but since we are on the open-source topic, is the Oculus API/SDK open?
I don't mean open-source(although that is a plus). I'm sure anyone can use it and but can anyone make a compatible API that is compatible with code originally designed for the Rift?
If the Rift is actually successful, it's a given that other companies will make similar products(Plus while the Rift is interesting, I want some competition, as it's far from my ideal). It'll be really sad if devs have to write code for each device on the market. Ideally, with the success of the Rift, there will be a initiative for a standard.
If the Chinese government directly or indirectly intervenes with Apple production lines in China, sure they can damage Apple. But that would also scare the crap out of pretty much every other foreign company which will probably resulting in them moving away from China. Without foreign business, China economy crumble. Such a move will be suicide for China. If the Chinese want to disrupt Apple(or any other major company) business, they must be as subtle as possible.
I think that is a delicate issue. IMHO, the very first question to ask would be : Are you using that domain? If the answer is yes, then you deserve that domain. If the answer is no then you should let someone who is going to use that domain have it.
But then there is a problem: Define "using". Is having a server displaying a single page with ads or some simple massage/whatever be considered using it?
Needless to say there are other problems: is the name related to the purpose of your webservice? is it infringing other people privacy/trademark/copyright? Those are just a few examples.
I not a network engineer or computer scientist, and I have no idea how DNS should be handled but personally even I find the current domain name system oversimplified and insufficient. A system that provides an incomplete solution to a very large and complex problem. ICANN was created in 1998, based on a system established by the US gov. much earlier. The internet back then was a smaller than the internal network of a large modern company nowadays. It was sufficient for the that time, but not anymore.
Or you could just use alternative stores.
I think you just described hell
If you want to take a refreshing big dump you NEED fast internet. Or are you implying you don't use your smartphone to browse facebook while in the pooper?
+1 if I had mod points. That was exactly my suspicion when I saw this news at other tech blogs. Reading the article a couple of days ago when I heard the news on Engadget, I was incredibly disappointed. The word "regeneration" is being completely misused here, unless that is it's meaning in Electronics(Just like "Teleportation" through quantum entanglement is quite different from Teleportation as we usually imagine). However as a System/Medical engineer that deals a lot of electronics I've never heard of such terminology. That is just a IC with some redundant reprogrammable capabilities that reprograms itself based on the input from the damage sensors it has built in itself. Nothing really goes back to the previous undamaged state. And after a number trials it will die for good. Useful tech, but misleading title.
Also horrible abstract. Just specs and numbers, exactly the opposite we expect from an abstract.
I hardly consider an already heavily censored internet "functional". Still better than NK's, though.
and white sneakers?
But on a serious note, I'm really curious about the output for people with similar clothes. Specially if you work in Japan, with all these salaryman in black suits or in any hospital with all doctors and nurses using nearly the same outfit(or any workplace that requires an uniform). Artists and celebrities may do their best to use different outfits in front of the cameras, but in the real world there is quite a significant overlap of clothing even between different people.
I totally agree with what you said: most people, including me and probably you, are not OS and framework developers, and for those people computers are tools to get the job done. And even as a linux fan myself, just like any tools, it's idiotic to believe that linux can do everything. But it's ALSO idiotic to think that about any other OS/platform. In the end it's really up to what you do. As a guy who uses all the OSes: games, office and CAD->windows; coding(embedded and desktop) and graphics(I can get my hobbyst stuff done on blender/gimp/inkscape); internet browsing and presentations->mac. Needless to say those are MY needs, which brings me to my next point.
The problem with this article is that the guy doesn't even say what he does/wants to do with his computer and just complains about fragmentation and incompatibilities as an end user and that is it. You can experience these problems, but only if you install linux on unsupported hardware. If I install MAC OS X on my retired 7 year old Vaio laptop(use a MBP retina for laptop, at least for now), I'd consider myself lucky if I even get to display the apple logo when booting. But regardless what is his opinion, without know how he wants to use his computer, there is no way to even agree or disagree with his shallow whining.
By the way, the article about windows losing to mac, that "inspired" him to write the topic article, is even worse. When it comes to Windows, "viruses" are the least of my problems nowadays. I'm actually surprised that a key person in the Linux history, that supposedly has a knowledge on computers and OSes that is above 99% of other computer users, gets inspired by an crappy ass article that looks like it was written by my grandma when she's pissed off at her laptop.
"Computers long ago reached the point where they were fast enough..."
For you, maybe - but not for everyone.
What you said is correct, but it's important to notice that a large chunk of the computer the computer market is target at the average joe, which uses their computers only for facebook, youtube, mail and some office, in which case a modern ARM system is more than enough. There are also those people trying to use ARM chips on servers for energy efficiency, but AFAIK, that is still a niche applications. Intel and x86 won't be going anywhere in the professional environment(ignoring the threat from openCL/CUDA as well as the possibility of a desktop class ARM), but I wouldn't be surprised if in the next years they lose significant presence in the consumer market. The fact that tablets and smartphones have been substituting desktop/laptop computers for lots of people, and the sales for classical computer devices have been going down is the proof that x86 is losing ground in daily life.
This. I see people all over the internet waiting for the $100 3d printer. Don't worry, we'll get them. But be prepared to pay with your body for the model and support materials.
Useful? What an understatement. This feature is could potentially being a life saver for the porn addicts browsing websites that open multiple tabs with video/chat feeds in the background.
Actually that is exactly what I did. My biggest issue so far with MBP however is that I can't get some hardware to work optimally(Nvidia Optimus being the prime example). The initial set up was also a huge mess. Sure I could just use a VM, and for most work that is what I do, but for graphics nothing is better than native performance. It would be really nice if Apple released bootcamp for linux.
too bad Chrome OS is just too gimped. Such a wasted opportunity. While the insides are not stellar the screen looks great. I'd gladly pay that price if it had a real linux distro with manufacturer support. That kind of screen is for professionals graphical and coding apps, not facebook, twitter and youtube.
My wish as well. Too bad sony is not that insightful. I have a playstation certified Xperia phone, pretty good phone: up to date, nice internals, very good looking, excellent 340ppi screen, but the playstation part sucks. Only playstation mobile games and the free Music Unlimited service if you're a PSN+ member are available. No remote play, no videos, no cloud services, no PSN, no PS1 and PSP games, virtually nothing.
Another thing that worries me about a PS certified PC is that, while the Vaio line is aesthetically attractive and contains some innovations such as external GPUs, payment through NFC since 2006, ultrabooks and netbooks way before these words were even coined(although extremely expensive), for gaming the Vaio line is and has always been awful. Also Linux support is not very good either(at least based on my experience with a Vaio laptop from 2006), which is ironical since sony is the only game console maker that bothered making linux, at least temporary, available for their consoles.
Back in the late 19th/early 20th century patents still made some sense as most devices were pretty much single purpose. But nowadays, when the trend is to make everything do everything and there is this fusion of all types of technologies going on, this classical patent system is completely inappropriate. Depending on the field you're working, it's an inhuman task to even keep track of all patents you're infringing.
The physical/chemical 3D print methods mentioned in the article are just the tip of the iceberg. If you start nitpicking, I wouldn't be surprised by the potential huge number of both software/firmware and electromechanical/mechatronics/robotics hardware patents they break.
The worst thing is that 3d printers are just highly specialized robots. Imagine in a few years when semi-general purpose robots start becoming common appliances, as healthcare, entertainment, maintenance or security tools. Robotics is known as the field of engineering that joins all other fields and because of that, even a basic cleaning robot will infringe pretty much every type of patent in the world. I think like the moment robot companies like iRobot or Cyberdyne release a killer consumer product they will pretty much be sued in oblivion by all other companies.